Egypt
ONI Blog: Blocked or Not Blocked? Lessons from an Intriguing “Filtering” Instance
Determining whether a Web site is blocked by a state filtering regime is sometimes a complicated issue that goes beyond finding out whether the site is simply accessible or inaccessible, and requires a multi-disciplinary approach, which ONI has been uniquely employing in...
- Posted on 30/Apr/2010; tagged in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering
ONI Blog: UN Security Forces Removal of ONI Poster
Whilst attending the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the OpenNet Initiative (along with partners of ONI Asia) gathered to present their upcoming book, Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace. A poster advertising the...
Report: Internet Filtering in Egypt in 2006-2007
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Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Country Profiles: Egypt.
Overview
Currently there is no evidence of Internet filtering in Egypt, although a small group of politically sensitive Web sites have been blocked in the past. Online writers...
ONI Blog: Egypt Bans Pornography Web sites
An Egyptian court has recently banned pornography Web sites, labeling them "venomous and vile," according to The Sydney Morning Herald. Egypt, which strictly bans offline pornography, already has a regulation which requires Internet cafe users to sign a form saying...
- Posted on 12/May/2009; tagged in Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Obscenity, Circumvention, Social filtering
ONI Blog: The Worst Places to be a Blogger
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has just released a list of the ten worst countries in which to blog. Topping the list is Burma, followed closely by Iran, Syria, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Tunisia, China, Turkmenistan, and Egypt.
In determining...
- Posted on 30/Apr/2009; tagged in Burma, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Syria, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Human rights
ONI Blog: Can they hear me now? (On ICT regulations, governments, and transparency)
On February 11, Vodafone's global head of content standards, Annie Mullins, revealed that Vodafone handed over communications data to the Egyptian authorities in response to government demands. This data may have been used to help identify rioters who were...
- Posted on 24/Feb/2009; tagged in Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Human rights, Surveillance, Privacy, Data retention
ONI Blog: Facebook Faceoff
As spite spurs activism among the nation’s youth, Egypt contemplates banning Facebook- the infamous Social Networking Site (SNS) that has taken the country by storm.
The rising food prices and consequential rise in cost of living in Egypt has caused a great...
- Posted on 21/Jul/2008; tagged in Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Surveillance, Political filtering
ONI Blog: Egyptian lawsuit to block ONI's Web site
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) reported in a press release issued May 10 that an Egyptian judge demanded in a lawsuit blocking access to 50 Web sites, the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) Web site is among them.
According...
- Posted on 11/May/2007; tagged in Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: BBC: Egypt blogger jailed for "insult"
An Egyptian court has sentenced a 22-year old blogger to four years in prison for insulting Islam and the president on his blog, BBC reported.
The blogger had criticized the country's top Islamic institution, al-Azhar University and President Hosni Mubarak, whom...
- Posted on 22/Feb/2007; tagged in Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Egypt arrests blogger for anti-Islamic remarks
A 22-year-old student blogger was arrested by Egyptian security forces for Arabic postings critical of Islam and the government. ...
- Posted on 07/Nov/2006; tagged in Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
